For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise family.

The tortoise looked like Freddy Krueger before his new shell. — -- A tortoise has a second chance in life after a team of designers in Brazil custom-made a shell for the reptile, which was badly ...

Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise whose life at the San Diego Zoo spanned more than 20 presidents, two world wars and two pandemics, has died. Believed to be 141 years old, the tortoise whom the zoo ...

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Famed Galápagos tortoise Lonesome George’s subspecies might not be extinct after all — researchers are calling the discovery of a surviving female relative “a story of hope” that the giant creature’s ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gramma, a beloved Galápagos tortoise at the San Diego Zoo believed to be 141 years old, was euthanized after ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born ...